Door-stop



(No Model.)

W. M. COATS. DOOR STOP.

No. 518,343. Patented Apr. 117, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALLACE M. COATS, or HILLSDALE, IOWA.

DOOR-STO P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,343, dated April 17, 1894.

Application filed July 26, 1893. Serial No. 4811508- (N0 modell) To all whom it may concern- Be it known that I, WA LAoE M. COATS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hillsdale, in the county of Mills and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Stops; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to door-stops, the object of my invention being to provide a device which can be secured to a wall against which the door would otherwise contact when thrown wide open, and which will serve the two-fold purpose of stopping the door and preventing contact with the wall, and also retain it wide open when required.

My invention more particularly resides in the novel, combination, construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully specified and pointed outin'the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my device detached from the wall. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the I hook removed from the holder, and Fig. 3 is a perspective View showing the device retaining a door open.

My combined door bumper and holder consists of a suitably shaped block A of wood or other suitable material adapted to be secured to a wall by a screw B, and furnished at its outer or bumping end with a block or button 0 of rubber or similar material secured to the block A. The upper and lower sides of the block A are flattened and are provided with holes or sockets D in series arranged longitudinally of the block, which receive the bent ends E of the hook or holder F. This holder is preferably formed of stout spring-wire, the central portion of which is first bent to form three sides of an oblong, the two opposing sides of which oblong are then bent in a plane at right angles to the plane of the oblong, ex-

is desired to place them in.

tending to a distance about twice the thickness of an ordinary door, are then bent backward so their directions are opposite and parallel to their original directions, and finally are bent inward so that their ends approach each other, and almost meet.

The holder being made of spring wire its endsmay be sprung apart to take over the flat surfaces of the block A, until the ends come over whichever pair of the socketsD it When used with a thick door, the ends of the holder are placed in the outer sockets.

Over the central part of the spring holder, or that part which comes in immediate contact with the side of the door, I place atube G of rubber or similar protective material.

When the device is used merely as a bumper, the spring hook is swung back in its socket bearing, and when it is desired to retain the door against the bumper, the spring hook is brought forward until its front side comes before the front surface of the door, which is thus held between the rubber. block 0, and the rubber tube G.

Having thus fully described my invention,

' what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I In a door-stop, the combination of a block having sockets arranged in series for adj ustment, an elastic or yielding button mounted in the block, a spring-wire hook-shaped holder having its ends adj ustably and removably re ceived in a pair of said sockets, a yielding covering for the holder, and means for securing the device to a wall, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALLACE M. COATS. Witnesses! MARY FAIRBROTHER, JAMES B. HAYNES. 

